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Infant abandonment

The abandoning of children at birth is a widespread issue.

Child abandonment

Child abandonment is the practice of relinquishing interests and claims over one's offspring with the intent of never again resuming or reasserting them. Causes include many social and cultural factors as well as mental illness. An abandoned child is called a foundling (as opposed to a runaway or an orphan).

Landerholm, L. (2001). The experience of abandonment and adoption, as a child and as a parent, in a psychological motivational perspective: International Forum of Psychoanalysis Vol 10(1) Feb 2001, 12-25.

Milherio, J. (2003). Adam and Eve in the desert (...the beginnings of the workshop...): Revista Portuguesa de Psicanalise No 24 Dec 2003, 5-20.

Misencik, S. G. (2002). The relationship between perceptions of maternal abandonment and engulfment and clinging and distancing defenses in women with borderline personality disorder. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering.

Mitchell, J. A. (2001). The influence of father abandonment on the experience and expression of anger on the African-American college male. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering.

Moutassem-Mimouni, B. (1999). Adult outcome of children abandoned at birth in Algeria: A comparative study of the outcome of adults raised in foster families and those raised in an institution: Psychiatrie de l'Enfant Vol 42(2) 1999, 623-645.

Wittstein, S. S. (1996). The effects of paternal abuse and abandonment on a daughter's psychological development: The father-daughter relationship in two contemporary american novels. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering.

Dissertations

Broadnax, J. H. (1999). Relationships of Adlerian lifestyle to career interests of high school students. Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences.

Diller, S. E. (2004). A phenomenological and heuristic study of the experience of losing one's entire family by death or abandonment by midlife. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering.

Harpaz, N. (1996). The fear of abandonment and the fear of engulfment of the psychotherapist: Manifestation in the psychotherapist's professional life clinical work with patients. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering.

Haruzivishe, C. O. (2000). A comparison of the characteristics of Zimbabwean women who abandon children and those who do not. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering.